Headteacher
Kingsgate Primary School
Camden
- Expired
- Salary:
- Leadership L23-L27
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2024
- Apply by:
- 11 January 2024
Job overview
KINGSGATE PRIMARY SCHOOL
Headteacher (L23-L27)
Required for September 2024
HEADTEACHER IN 3 FORM ENTRY SPLIT-SITE CAMDEN PRIMARY SCHOOL
EYFS/KS1 IS LOCATED IN WEST HAMPSTEAD AND KS2 IS LOCATED IN KILBURN
We are recruiting for the role of Headteacher in Kingsgate Primary School. This is an exciting leadership opportunity in a very successful community school.
Kingsgate Primary School was given Ofsted Outstanding status in March 2011, and again in November 2023.
The successful candidate will already have experience of working as a Headteacher or Head of School in an urban primary school. You will be a highly motivated leader with drive and commitment to excellence. We are looking for an experienced professional who can demonstrate strategic leadership and clarity of purpose.
You will be joining a skilled and dedicated staff who work hard to ensure that all of our pupils achieve highly.
Visits to the school are strongly encouraged
Please complete the attached application form and e-mail to Shelley Dunbar, School Business Manager; s.dunbar@kingsgate-pri.camden.sch.uk
School website https://www.kingsgateprimaryschool.org.uk
Closing date for applications: 12 noon on Monday 22nd January
Interviews: w/c 19th February
Kingsgate Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the interests of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
The school will request references for short-listed candidates before interview.
Successful applicants will be required to undertake a DBS Enhanced Disclosure.
In line with KCSIE 2023 and safer recruitment practices, the school will conduct an online search for all shortlisted candidates. The online search is part of our safeguarding checks and is purely about a candidate’s suitability to work with children.
Attached documents
About Kingsgate Primary School
Kingsgate Primary School is a mixed school in Camden, north London. With a roll call of around 550, it is larger than similar schools of its type and serves an inner-city area with very high levels of deprivation. A large majority of pupils at Kingsgate Primary School are from ethnic minority groups and most speak English as an additional language. Twenty-six different heritages are represented and an extensive number of languages spoken.
The school strives to provide its pupils with challenging and inspirational educational experiences. It holds several awards, including a Healthy Schools Award.
Headteacher
Meg Jones
Vision and values
Kingsgate Primary School’s vision is to be a place where all children succeed, equipped through their education with a skill set that will maximise their positive life chances in the future.
The school believes that it should give children a particular set of values in the interests of individuals and wider society. These values, it says, prepare the children for life in modern Britain. The list is extensive but centres on excellence, respect and resilience.
Ofsted
“Kingsgate Primary School is an outstanding school, where ambition is embedded from the most senior leaders to the pupils themselves. Inspirational messages are prevalent throughout the school. The school's success is due to highly effective leadership, efficiency of management and the excellent progress that pupils make as a result of good teaching, excellent behaviour and an exciting curriculum.”
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